Floral

FTD will celebrate its 100-year anniversary on August 18, 2010. Founded in 1910 by 15 visionary florists who banded together in order to give customers the ability to send flowers nationwide, FTD has become one of the world’s best known brands, with the Mercury Man logo displayed in over 40,000 floral shops worldwide. …

Despite the down economy, California still leads the nation in exports like technology, fruit, and dairy. The state is also the country’s number one exporter of cut flowers. But don’t let that ranking fool you – today, almost 80 percent of the cut flowers sold in the US are imported. That has California flower growers struggling to compete. …

Plant Names, Global Challenges” is the title of the conference that the Royal Dutch Bulb Growers Association (KAVB) announced just days ago. The title highlights the issues that the organization hopes to address there: the floral industry’s need for appropriate nomenclature and cultivar registration, as well as ways of developing and enforcing systematic rights registration and trademarks. …

After the rose, the chrysanthemum is the second most popular cut flower in the Netherlands. Last year, almost 1.4 billion chrysanthemums were sold, earning 290.5 million euros. Of that, 285 million euros came from exports. …

New England Floriculture, Inc., invites you to attend The Northeast Greenhouse Conference & Expo in Worcester, Massachusetts and join other growers and retailers for the largest nationally recognized floriculture industry show in New England. …